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Pirates on the coasts of Peru
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Peter T. Bradley |
In the eyes of the Spanish crown, all of those who intruded into the seas around its empire in Central and South America were pirates - piratas, corsarios, bucaneros or sometimes pechelingues. At the… |
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The caudillo of the Andes
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Natalia Sobrevilla Perea |
"Born in La Paz in 1792, Andrés de Santa Cruz lived through the turbulent times that led to independence across Latin America. He fought to shape the newly established republics, and between 1836 and… |
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The Empire of Necessity: Slavery, Freedom, and Deception in the New World
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Greg Grandin,Greg Grandin |
Groundbreaking analysis and gripping storytelling from one of today's most original and highly acclaimed historians.
'The Empire of Necessity is scholarship at its best. Greg Grandin's deft penetrat… |
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South American tapirs
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Rachel Lynette |
Introduces South American tapirs, describing their physical characteristics, habitat, life cycle, and how they protect themselves from predators. |
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Life and death in the Andes
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Kim MacQuarrie |
"Kim MacQuarrie tells great stories of South America's history, from Butch Cassidy to Che Guevara to cocaine king Pablo Escobar to the last survivor of an Indian tribe, all of these stories set in th… |
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Colonial Latin America
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Lyman L. Johnson,Mark A. Burkholder |
"Textbook intended for college survey courses incorporates recent scholarship of much value for more advanced students. Uses standard political and economic approach enhanced by sharply focused secti… |
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Renato Beluche, smuggler, privateer, and patriot, 1780-1860
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Jane Lucas De Grummond |
Renato Beluche played many roles in the turbulent world of the nineteenth-century Caribbean. He was a merchant sea captain as well as a successful Privateer. He was Simón Bolívar’s favorite admiral a… |
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Memoria del fuego
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Eduardo Galeano |
A re-creation of the conquest of the Americas and Latin America, divided into three parts. In the first are the myths of pre-Columbian America; in the second the history of America unfolds from the 1… |
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